Quotes about Empathy

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I have done with his years. It is in his name that I speak to you and that I express to you my deepest gratitude as one who has emerged from the Kingdom of Night.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.

Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.

When you give bread to a beggar we give him that taste of paradise which only the poor can savor.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." ? Elie Wiesel

I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.